- Sermons -
CULTIVATING GENTLENESS
RYNE PARRISH - APR 28, 2024
Continuing our series on cultivating our souls to bear the fruit of the gospel, Ryne’s sermon today preaches about gentleness, a key feature of Jesus’ personality that allowed him to reach people, and one we are called to mirror despite the world’s constant refrain that we be tough, aggressive, and harsh.
CULTIVATING SELF-CONTROL
RYNE PARRISH - APR 21, 2024
Continuing our series on cultivating our souls to bear the fruit of Jesus’ teachings, Ryne preaches about self-control and highlights how when we allow the Spirit to thrive within us we can cultivate a desire for something better than whatever might distract or control us.
THE SOWER, THE SOIL, AND THE SOUL
RYNE PARRISH - APR 14, 2024
Beginning a new sermon series on preparing ourselves to bear the fruit of the message of Jesus, Ryne’s lesson today preaches intentionally cultivating our lives in order to promote the growth of the good news of Christ. Today’s message from the parable of the sower helps us understand the importance of preparing ourselves to allow the message of the gospel to spread from our words and deeds.
GETTING INTO GOD’S GROOVES
RYNE PARRISH - APR 07, 2024
This week’s lesson is Ryne’s final message from our Gird Thy Loins series. He wraps up the series with a message that invites us to examine how our habits and the things we spend our time doing shape us into who we are. Are we conforming to the world, finding ourselves in unintentional ruts, or are we being transformed more into the image of God, allowing ourselves to be guided in the grooves that lead to a life of following Jesus?
WHO WILL ROLL AWAY THE STONE?
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 31, 2024
Ryne’s Easter Sunday message preaches the good news of the resurrection and declares that Jesus has released us from the locked doors that death traps us behind. The good news of Easter is that Jesus has conquered the grave, that he is victorious over death, and that just as we are wrapped in his death, so are we wrapped in his victory over the imprisonment of sin.
TAKE UP MY YOKE & PULL WITH ME
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 17, 2024
In this week’s message in our sermon series on looking at some of the hard things we are called to do when living a life of faith, Ryne shines a light on what Jesus means and expects from us when he calls for us to take up his yoke. We are reminded that Jesus provides a way for us to lighten our burdens, that he will carry them with us, and that we can follow him in rhythms of work and rest.
CONFESSING SIN
RYNE PARRIS - MAR 10, 2024
In this week’s lesson in our sermon series reviewing some of the difficult things that Jesus calls us to do in our walk with him, Ryne reminds us that we are commanded to confess our sins, not only to God, but to each other, and that in doing so we not only establish fellowship with one another, but we are freed from the chains of sin and are given a renewal of the joy of baptism.
THE SELF-DENYING COMMUNITY
RYNE PARRIS - MAR 03, 2024
Ryne’s sermon this week, the next in our series of meditations on the hard calls that Jesus makes on our lives, frames self-denial as a crucial component of belonging to our community. When we value others above ourselves, we become linked by our commitment to what Christ has called us to do. Ryne’s lesson this week gives practical advice on how to be a community together.
HIS PATIENCE IS LOVE
KAREN SEWELL - FEB 25, 2024
This week’s lesson from Karen Sewell frames God’s patience with us as part of his promise to us, as a sign of compassion, as being full of forgiveness for us, and reminds us that God’s patience for us will remain, even throughout all of our struggles to recognize how he shows up for us in our lives.
SAYING NO TO SELF
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 18, 2024
Following last week’s emphasis on the importance of training in our faith, this week’s lesson points out that the life Jesus has called us to is inherently selfless, and we must therefore practice self-denial. Ryne suggests fasting as a way to practice self-denial and explains how fasting can extend to more than just food.
PRACTICING PRAYER
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 11, 2024
In this week’s sermon in our series on the difficult things we are asked to do during our life of faith, Ryne highlights prayer as being the most practical way for us to train for a life of walking with Jesus and issues a three-fold challenge that will help us in our attempts to exercise our muscles for discipleship.
TRAINING, NOT TRYING
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 04, 2024
Continuing our Gird Thy Loins sermon series in which we consider some of the hard things we are asked to do in our life of faith, Ryne’s sermon today motivates us to train harder, not try harder, to be more like Jesus. With a reminder that being Christ-like is a culmination of effort over time, Ryne encourages us to keep going, to put that effort in, because becoming like Jesus is worth the hard work.
BECOMING AN APPRENTICE
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 28, 2024
Continuing our sermon series on considering some of the hard things we are asked to do in our life of faith, Ryne delivers a message that proclaims that the call to follow Jesus is not a checklist to get into Heaven, but rather a challenge to devote time, practice, repetition, and intentionality to becoming proficient at the skill of discipleship.
FORGIVEN, FORGIVING
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 21, 2024
Continuing our sermon series on considering some of the hard things we are asked to do in our life of faith, Ryne’s lesson today is about forgiveness; not whether we must do it, but whether we should do it. With a reminder that Jesus does not call us to do things we cannot do and does not call us to do things that are not worth doing, Ryne encourages us to remember that because God has forgiven us, we are empowered to forgive others.
ARE YOU READY TO DO HARD THINGS?
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 14, 2024
Starting a new sermon series entitled Gird Thy Loins, Ryne begins to take us through some of the difficult things we must face when living a life of faith. This week’s message reminds us that we often do things because the challenge of them is rewarding, and emphasizes that Jesus does not call us to do things that aren’t worth doing.
FOLLOWING JESUS
SUSAN JEW - JAN 07, 2024
This week’s message from Susan Jew highlights steps Jesus calls us to take when we make the choice to follow him and encourages us with a look into how we can lean on each other while on our walk with Christ.
BORN TO GIVE US SECOND BIRTH
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 31, 2023
This week’s sermon is a reminder that Jesus’ birth calls us to our own re-birth. Though our human birth leaves us with no choice, we are called to a birth of water and spirit, one that allows us to choose to be born into Christ and for Christ to be born into us.
A NEW TRAJECTORY AT CHRISTMAS
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 24, 2023
Ryne’s lesson this Christmas Eve describes the arrival of our savior as a collision of heaven and earth; an event that sets us in a new direction. The trajectory of our human lives may not look very different day to day, but Jesus has set in motion a change within us, so that inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
PSALM 85 AS THE CHRISTMAS GHOSTS
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 17, 2023
This week’s sermon comes from Psalm 85 which can be broken into the past, present, and things yet to come of God’s promises to us. Ryne takes us through a look at what God has done for us in the past, the things we are currently placing into God’s hands, and the anticipation of the good things God has shown us that are still ahead of us.
TURNING AROUND FOR CHRISTMAS
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 10, 2023
In this season of Advent, a time to focus on all of the ways that Jesus makes us new, Ryne brings us a message that was repeated by John the Baptist and Jesus himself—what God started in the beginning, what the Holy Spirit is still accomplishing, and what Jesus is still preparing to do, is just around the corner. Repent, turn around, face the right direction, or you might miss it.
JESUS AS MOTHER HEN
RYNE PARRISH - DECC 03, 2023
As we continue to Consider the Birds, Ryne’s sermon today takes a look at Jesus through the lens of the only bird he describes himself as—a mother hen, providing shelter and comfort to her chicks under her wings. This view of our savior is a good reminder that love, along with its vulnerabilities, rather than prowess or power, is what Jesus offers to us.
THE HOLY SPIRIT, DESCENDING LIKE A PIGEON
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 19, 2023
Ryne’s lesson this week invites us to Consider the Birds and highlights the omnipresence of God, like a pigeon, always underfoot, in all of the places where we are, commonplace and widely found, and challenges us to see what is right under our nose.
FINDING THE FATHER IN THE SON
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 05, 2023
Wrapping up our sermon series on God-ing, that is, actively looking for God in our world today, Ryne shares a message that points out God’s existence all around us. We can always find God anywhere that Jesus is, or was, including within ourselves. God is so readily present in our everyday lives, that it is going to take some intentional noticing on our part to not let his presence blend into our surroundings. Our God shows up for us—let’s pay attention.
AN EVIL SPIRIT & THE WOULD-BE EXORCISTS
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 29, 2023
Continuing our yearly tradition of hearing spooky stories from the Bible, Ryne narrates a story from Acts, one filled with evil spirits and careless exorcisms, that cautions against what happens when we try and make the name of Jesus work for us, instead of working in the name of Jesus.
FINDING GOD IN BEING WRONG
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 22, 2023
Let’s go God-ing! This week we continue our sermon series on finding God. This week’s sermon is a reminder that God may show up differently than we thought he would, that he may work differently than we expected. We have to be able to admit when we are wrong about God, and not be so sure that we understand how he works that we fail to recognize when he arrives.
FINDING GOD IN FAILURE & FEAR
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 15, 2023
In our sermon series on God-ing, we have shifted from the “how” of seeking God to the “where” of seeking God. In today’s lesson, Ryne reiterates that our God is a God that arrives, that shows up in big ways for us. Looking at the story of Elijah, we are reminded that our God meets us where we have failed and tells us that he has more for us to do.
WALK HUMBLY NOW
STEVE THOMSEN - OCT 08, 2023
This week’s message comes from Steve Thomsen who encourages us with a reminder that if we are followers of Jesus, our actions will reflect that. Our faith will be shown in the way we behave, and our behavior will show what it is we believe about our savior.
LOOKING FOR GOD IN THE WILDERNESS
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 01, 2023
In our sermon series on God-ing, we have shifted from the “how” of seeking God to the “where” of seeking God. In today’s lesson, Ryne highlights God’s arrival, as a fulfillment of promises he made, during times that feel like they are God-forsaken, and encourages us to surround ourselves with community that will help point God out during times we might otherwise miss recognizing him.
WAITING FOR BIRDS AND GOD
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 17, 2023
Continuing our sermon series on God-ing, that is, searching for God in the world today, Ryne’s sermon this week is a reminder that patience is absolutely key in spotting God at work in our lives, and that waiting on God has always been a part of God’s story.
CHURCH AS GOD-ING GROUP
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 03, 2023
Continuing our sermon series on seeking God in our world today, Ryne’s lesson on God-ing is that the pursuit of God is something we do ourselves, but not by ourselves. When we are searching for God, one person’s perspective isn’t enough, and we should point out to each other whenever we see or experience God.
PRAYER AS BINOCULARS
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 27, 2023
Let’s go God-ing! Continuing our sermon series on seeking God in our world today, Ryne takes us through the importance of being able to zoom in on what we are experiencing and preaches prayer as part of the “how” of being aware of the presence of God.
THE BIBLE AS FIELD GUIDE
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 20, 2023
Come along with us as we go God-ing! This week we continue our sermon series on seeking God in our world today. Beginning Part I on the “how” of God-ing, Ryne’s lesson today examines the Bible as field guide—a reference that helps us understand what we have seen and make sense of what we are experiencing.
BIRDS, INVISIBLE GORILLAS, AND SEEKING GOD
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 13, 2023
Come along with us as we go God-ing! This week we begin a new sermon series on seeking God. Ryne’s lesson this morning lays out what it takes to not just notice God, but to actively look for him in all things.
BEING LIKE JESUS
SUSAN JEW - AUG 06, 2023
Today’s message is from Susan Jew who poses the question: What is our role in God’s family? This sermon encourages us with an outline of the example that Jesus was to us as God’s son.
MALACHI ON ENDINGS AND NEW BEGINNINGS
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 23, 2023
Today’s sermon wraps up our Majoring in the Minors series and our examination of the minor prophets of the Old Testament. Ryne’s message today brings us to a hopeful cliffhanger—God is still at work in and through us, and our story is not yet over.
ZECHARIAH ON THE COMING KING
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 16, 2023
Continuing our Majoring in the Minors sermon series, which examines the minor prophets in the Old Testament, Ryne’s sermon today is a reminder that we worship a king who has dominion over all the earth, yet made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey, not a war horse, who commands a kingdom of peace, not power.
HAGGAI ON TEMPLES AND PRIORITIES
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 09, 2023
Continuing our sermon series on the minor Old Testament prophets, Ryne’s message this week comes from Haggai and is a lesson in making sure we have our priorities straight.
BEARING THE MARKS OF JESUS
KENT TURPIN - JUL 02, 2023
This week’s lesson is from Kent Turpin who delivers a message that reminds us that everyone on earth experiences trials, and encourages us to return to God in those moments of pain.
LEANING IN WITH THE DAY OF THE LORD
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 25, 2023
This week’s lesson in our Majoring in the Minors series comes from Zephaniah and invites us to consider how the day we see God’s kingdom might go for us. Are we leaning into what we are awaiting and know is coming? Do our lives reflect that anticipation?
COMPLAIN & LAMENT, WAIT & LISTEN
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 18, 2023
Continuing our Majoring in the Minors sermon series, Ryne’s message this week is from Habakkuk and is a lesson in waiting on God and trusting that he will make things right in his own time. It’s up to us to wait and listen for God’s answers to us.
WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE?
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 11, 2023
Continuing our Majoring in the Minors sermon series, Ryne’s message from the book of Micah examines what exactly God requires from those who follow him. Though easier said than done, the practice of doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God allows us to live a way of life that is good, and not just a checklist of behavior or deeds.
WHO WILL BULLY THE BULLIES?
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 04, 2023
Continuing our Majoring in the Minors sermon series, Ryne’s lesson this week hits the mark on its theme of justice and reminds us that there are injustices that we cannot set right, but that God can and will. This sermon from Nahum challenges our perspective on some of the more violent depictions of our God and examines how God doesn’t just punish wrong, but sets it right.
I KNEW YOU ARE A MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS GOD
ABBY KAPLAN - MAY 28, 2023
Continuing our Majoring in the Minors sermon series, Ryne delivers a message from Abby Kaplan that highlights God’s graciousness and calls out our bitterness when we see it being applied to people we judge to be undeserving. This week’s lesson is a reminder that God’s grace is for the undeserving and that God invites us to celebrate that.
WHERE TO HEAR OURSELVES IN OBADIAH
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 21, 2023
Continuing our look at themes of justice and hope in the shorter books of the Old Testament, Ryne’s lesson this week in our Majoring in the Minors series is a call to action for us to actively love our enemies, neighbors, and community members, lest we face the judgement our proud hearts deserve.
LET JUSTICE ROLL
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 14, 2023
Continuing our Majoring in the Minors sermon series, which looks at themes of justice and hope in the shorter books of prophecy in the Old Testament, Ryne’s lesson from Amos is that we are not special simply because we believe we are God’s people, rather it is being God’s people through our actions and behavior that makes us special.
A LESSON IN LOCUSTS
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 07, 2023
Continuing our Majoring in the Minors sermon series, which looks at themes of justice and hope in the shorter books of prophecy in the Old Testament, Ryne’s message today comes from the book of Joel. The message shared today is a reminder for us to repent, and return to God with our hearts, not just our words, to let our love for God be genuine, not performative.
HUMAN INFIDELITY, GOD’S FAITHFULNESS
RYNE PARRISH - APR 30, 2023
Beginning a new sermon series called Majoring in the Minors, which examines themes of justice and hope in the 12 shorter books of prophecy in the Old Testament, Ryne’s message today comes from Hosea. This sermon looks at God’s compassion and love for his people, despite all of the ways we betray and hurt him, and the reconciliation in our relationship with him that leads to a renewed covenant.
THE GOOD OL’ DAYS
RYNE PARRISH - APR 23, 2023
Ryne’s message this week is that we might be fond of the good ol’ days, but they just don’t compare to what Jesus has to offer. Ryne reminds us to look forward with anticipation to our future in Jesus because we have not yet experienced the fullness of God’s plan for us.
REMEMBER THE PURPOSE
JOE EDDINGS - APR 16, 2023
Joe Eddings brings us a lesson this week that provides an intimate perspective on Jesus’ pain while on the cross. Joe encourages us with a message that reminds us that Jesus endured the pain he experienced for a purpose.
REMEMBERING THE RESURRECTED CHRIST
RYNE PARRISH - APR 09, 2023
Continuing our Lest We Forget sermon series, Ryne’s Easter lesson takes us through an exercise in faith and calls to mind our savior, Jesus Christ, who we recognize each week in each other, in the emblems of communion, and in the power and promise of resurrection that we each have because of God’s perfect plan for us.
REMEMBER ME
RYNE PARRISH - APR 02, 2023
Continuing our Lest We Forget sermon series, Ryne brings us a message that focuses on encouraging us to remember that God remembers us. In our gritty, lonely, painful human experience, the grace of the cross of Christ is that we can know that we are not alone or forgotten because Jesus is with us.
REMEMBERING SIN
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 26, 2023
Beginning a new sermon series entitled Lest We Forget, Ryne’s lesson this week asks us to bring to mind the things we have done that we are ashamed of, that have hurt others and ourselves, and to hold them before God and remember that we have an invitation to repentance and are forgiven.
EXPERIENCING GOD’S GOODNESS
KAREN SEWELL - MAR 19, 2023
This week Karen shares an encouragement that God’s goodness is a stronghold for us in times of trouble, that it has outlasted time and will be with us until the end, and that it is present in the day-to-day details of our lives. This week’s sermon reminds us that it is part of God’s plan for us to experience his goodness.
SABBATH REST
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 12, 2023
Ryne’s message this week reminds us that Sabbath rest is a commandment from God and gets to the heart of what Sabbath rest really means.
TENSION BETWEEN CHILDLIKENESS & MATURITY
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 05, 2023
Wrapping up our sermon series on tensions found in a life in the Christian faith, Ryne’s message this week focuses on what finding a balance between a childlike and a mature faith looks like, and why it’s important to live in the tension between them.
TENSION BETWEEN LIFE & DEATH
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 26, 2023
Continuing our sermon series examining tensions that exist in a life in the Christian faith, Ryne’s message this week takes us through the tension that exists between a life and death in Christ.
TENSION BETWEEN ALREADY & NOT YET
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 19, 2023
Continuing our sermon series on tensions found in a life in the Christian faith, Ryne’s message this week takes us through a look at faith as a matter of looking ahead to what we hope for, and our belief that God’s kingdom is already shaping our lives in the meantime.
JUST SAY YES
STEVE THOMSEN - FEB 12, 2023
This week’s sermon from Steve Thomsen is an encouragement to just say yes when it comes to caring for others, to establishing relationships with people in your community, and to opening doors of opportunity for Jesus to work through us in our every day interactions.
TENSION BETWEEN KNOWING & UNKNOWING
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 05, 2023
This week’s sermon continues our series examining tensions between some of the complexities found in a life in the Christian faith. Ryne’s lesson looks at the tension that exists in knowing a God who is so much more than we can ever fathom.
TENSION BETWEEN RELIGION & RELATIONSHIP
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 29, 2023
Continuing our series examining tensions between some of the complexities found in a life in the Christian faith, Ryne’s message this week examines finding a balance between what religion tells us about God and what our relationship with God shows us about him.
TENSION BETWEEN SAINT & SINNER
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 23, 2023
This week’s sermon continues our series examining tensions between some of the complexities found in a life in the Christian faith. Ryne’s lesson highlights the tension that exists in the truth that we are sinners, but that God has also already made us holy.
TENSION BETWEEN ACCEPTANCE & OBEDIENCE
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 15, 2023
This week Ryne begins a new sermon series that explores some of the essential tensions and complexities that we find in a life of faith. This week’s message investigates the tension between God’s call to us to come to him just as we are, and his instruction to us to not stay where we are or as we are, but to follow him.
TIDINGS OF COMFORT AND JOY
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 01, 2023
Concluding our sermon series, Singing Christmas, Ryne leads us through the message of joy—joy in the nearness of God that we experience in the coming of Jesus on earth—that lives in so many of our Christmas hymns, and reminds us that there is comfort to be found in that truth all year long.
JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 25, 2022
Continuing our sermon series, Singing Christmas, Ryne takes us through hymns that highlight the message that Jesus, when he came to this earth as a newborn baby, did not grow up and become the Messiah, but at the moment of his birth, was already Lord of all.
LIGHT OF THE WORLD
SUSAN JEW - DEC 18, 2022
Susan Jew continues December’s sermon series, Singing Christmas, with a lesson that examines the theme of light in several of our Christmas hymns, and a reminder that the message they share is that Jesus is the Light of the World.
HEAVENLY PEACE ON EARTH
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 11, 2022
Continuing December’s sermon series, Singing Christmas, Ryne’s lesson examines heavenly peace and the ways that it transcends what we might recognize as wordly peace.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 04, 2022
Beginning this December’s sermon series, Singing Christmas, Ryne’s message this week emphasizes the anticipation of the glorious impossible—the birth of Christ to a virgin mother, and God’s coming near to all of humanity.
FINDING HOME: RECEIVING AN INHERITANCE
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 20, 2022
In the final lesson of our sermon series, Finding Home, Ryne’s message looks at the inheritance that God has promised to us, and examines how it is already ours even though we must wait for it.
FINDING HOME: RENTING
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 13, 2022
Continuing our sermon series, Finding Home, Ryne brings us a lesson that motivates us to participate fully in God’s physical creation of this world, even though we know that this place is temporary and our permanent home awaits us.
FINDING HOME: MOVING
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 06, 2022
Beginning a new sermon series, Finding Home, Ryne’s message this week is that God is with us through our liminal spaces, and that when we need direction, we should look to the Lord who goes before us to guide our way.
THE WITCH AND THE GHOST
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 30, 2022
Continuing our theme of revisiting some of the bible’s strange and spooky stories, this week we hear a chilling retelling of King Saul’s visit with the Witch of Endor and his conversation with the spirit of Samuel that was summoned back from the dead.
WHAT NEXT?
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 16, 2022
Concluding our sermon series on What Happens Next, Ryne’s lesson this week is an encouraging reminder that what’s next for us is exactly what was next for the first-century church in Acts—that what might seem like an anti-climactic ending is really an open-ended beginning for God’s church to ask and act on what’s next? Whatever comes next, the continuing presence of Jesus is a certainty, and the whole point is that the story is not yet over.
NOT IN A CORNER
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 09, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series and our look through the book of Acts, Ryne’s message is a lesson in the importance of letting our light shine, and a look at why following Christ doesn’t happen in dark corners.
THE DEFINING FACTOR
KENT TURPIN - OCT 02, 2022
This week’s message comes from Kent Turpin and is a heart-felt reminder of the one thing that should define and guide us as Christians - love.
INNOCENCE AS WITNESS
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 25, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson reminds us that our ability to spread the truth of the gospel rests on our innocence from the sins Christians are most often, and most rightly, accused of. We must be able to show, through our behavior and actions, that we live lives meaningfully changed by the Holy Spirit.
FOLLOWING & BREAKING THE PATTERN OF JESUS
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 18, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne delivers a sermon that looks at the similarities between Jesus’s story and Paul’s, and gives a reminder that God’s will for us isn’t always what we expect it will be—that sometimes God uses our circumstances to do his will in ways we didn’t see coming.
PASSING THE BATON
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 11, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, a study of the book of Acts, Ryne’s message this week is that if we want to ensure the message of life in Christ is passed down to new generations, we have to live lives of example that show what the message of a life in Christ is.
TURNING THE (ECONOMIC) WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 04, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson encourages us to consider what the upending of the world’s economy might look like if we allowed the gospel to shape the way we engage in the economy, and makes the case for doing just that.
TURNING THE (CULTURAL) WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 28, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s sermon highlights the idea that we often blend Christ with our broader culture to the extent that the gospel loses its distinctiveness, and examines what the upending of our culture looks like when we allow the gospel to reorient us.
TURNING THE (POLITICAL) WORLD UPSIDE DOWN
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 21, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson this week examines what happened in Acts when the apostles preached Jesus as King, and what the upending of our world looks like when we do the same.
AN UNUSUAL NIGHT IN JAIL
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 14, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message to the church is a reminder that we all sometimes need an attitude adjustment, and illustrates the importance of embodying the disposition that Christians are called to have, even in the face of trials of many kinds.
FAITH
RAYMOND JEW - AUG 07, 2022
In this week’s sermon, Raymond’s message offers an encouraging reminder of the immense power of God that is shown when we have even the smallest measure of faith.
MINISTRY IN GRAYSCALE
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 31, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne preaches about the mistake we sometimes make in expecting God to guide us in a way that is crystal-clear, black-and-white, and encourages us to see the grayscale of God’s plan for us, so that we might be open-minded and ready to see that plan when we hear our own version of the Macedonian call.
UNITY IN THE MIDST OF DIFFERENCE AND DISAGREEMENT
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 24, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson reminds the church to keep a focus on the one and only “salvation issue” and reminds us that everything else is not worth division and discord.
THE ROLLERCOASTER OF LIFE IN CHRIST
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 17, 2022
This week in our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne encourages the church with a message that reminds us that the good news of Jesus is not that the rollercoaster of life only moves upward, but that when the rollercoaster goes down, God is the one engineering the upturn.
HOW TO NOT END UP ON THE WRONG SIDE OF PROPHECY
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 10, 2022
Ryne’s sermon this week, the next in our What Happens Next sermon series, reminds us that because of Jesus, we have been unconditionally included in God’s grand work of extending salvation to the world, and that every time we are reminded of this inclusion, we should react as the Gentiles did in Acts 13—with gladness and praise for the Lord.
PRAYER, RESURRECTION, AND GRAND REVERSALS
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 03, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message this week is that God often turns things on their heads, especially when we least expect it, and reminds us why that’s not only good for us, but important for us.
ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED
ABBY KAPLAN - JUN 26, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Abby Kaplan brings us the message that reminds us that God is not only inviting us to join him in the work he is already doing, but that he loves us enough that he allows us to be included in that work.
GOD’S NOT MAGIC
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 12, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s lesson encourages us to repent when our relationship to God consists solely of trying to use God for our own ends. We are called to notice the work that the Holy Spirit is already doing in us and through us, and to join in on that work, not to try to use God like magic.
SHAPED BY STORY
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 05, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne delivers a sermon that reminds us that if we are to continue the ministry of Jesus, we must be led by the Holy Spirit and not allow ourselves to cling to wordly idols that distract us from being spirit-led.
THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 29, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message this week encourages us with a reminder that God can accomplish healing through us.
A CALL TO ACTION
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 22, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne delivers a message that implores us to put our God-given talents to use in the work of continuing the ministry of Jesus so that we might see the impact God’s plan has in the community we belong to.
DREAMERS, VISIONARIES, & PROPHETS
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 15, 2022
Continuing our What Happens Next sermon series, Ryne’s message this week encourages us to acknowledge the Holy Spirit, to be aware of how it works in our lives (and to accept it through baptism if we haven’t already), and he challenges us to dream, envision, and prophesy about what kingdom work God has planned for our community.
CONTINUING THE MINISTRY OF JESUS
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 01, 2022
Beginning a new sermon series focused on what happens next, following the resurrection of Jesus, Ryne brings us a lesson that highlights our role in spreading the good news. We have inherited the mission of telling others about Jesus, we have inherited the mission of continuing the ministry of Jesus.
GROUNDED IN JESUS
KAREN SEWELL - APR 24, 2022
This week’s sermon takes a look at what it means to be grounded in Jesus as seen through the eyes of some of our congregation’s members who truly emulate Christ, who seek out God’s wisdom, and who many of us lean on as we look to secure our own foundation in Jesus.
BEGINNING AGAIN ON EASTER
RYNE PARRISH - APR 17, 2022
Concluding our sermon series on the Holy Week, Ryne offers a message of the resurrection, a message that reminds us that Jesus is alive, that he is with us, and that we are invited to a fresh start, a new beginning, a new life.
IF CHRIST WERE NOT RAISED
RYNE PARRISH - APR 10, 2022
The penultimate day in the timeline of our sermon series on the Holy Week is what Ryne would call Silent Saturday. Ryne’s message this week reflects on the silence of the Saturday between Jesus’ crucifixion and the resurrection; an examination of silence, stillness, and rest.
LOOKING AT JESUS ON THE CROSS
RYNE PARRISH - APR 03, 2022
It’s Good Friday, the day of Jesus’ crucifixion, in the timeline of our sermon series on the Holy Week. Ryne’s message this week highlights the irony behind the severity of Jesus’ death and the need for us to acknowledge the broken body of Christ, which mirrors our own weakness, suffering, insufficiency, guilt, sorrow, and wounds.
HOLY WEEK - COMMUNION SERVICE
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 27, 2022
Continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week, Ryne leads our congregation through a reflection on what Jesus says and does during his last passover meal with his disciples, and how we can recognize these things about Jesus in our own lives.
THE ANOINTING OF JESUS
SUSAN JEW - MAR 20, 2022
Continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week, which looks at the days leading up to Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection, Susan Jew leads us through the account of the anointing of Jesus and illustrates how the woman’s actions, though criticized as careless and wasteful, demonstrated that she understood that Jesus was worth it.
ROADMAP TO GLORY
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 13, 2022
Continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week, Ryne’s lesson helps us spot the sign posts that point toward the cross and reminds us what Jesus himself says his death will mean for us all.
THE WITHERED FIG TREE & THE FRUITLESS TEMPLE
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 06, 2022
This week we are continuing our sermon series on the Holy Week which studies Jesus’ final 7 days leading up to his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. Using the account of Jesus’ visit to the temple in Jerusalem found in the gospel of Mark, Ryne’s lesson today encourages us with a reminder that Jesus can move mountains, any obstacles that stand in the way of people coming to God.
THE KING COMES TO JERUSALEM
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 27, 2022
We’re beginning a new sermon series entitled, Holy Week, which in the weeks, leading up to Easter, will help us look at the last 7 days of Jesus’ life, leading up to his death, burial, and resurrection. This week takes a look at Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, celebrated by the crowd as a coming king, though not the king we expect him to be. Jesus is not the king who will lead us into war or who will win wealth and prosperity for us. He’s a king without a crown, a savior with no might, a humble king who doesn’t demand allegiance, but faces death for us and gave up everything because he loves us.
GOD ON WHEELS
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 20, 2022
Concluding our sermon series, Hope in Exile, Ryne’s message this week expresses the encouraging truth that though there may be times when we feel stuck in exile or lost in our despair, there is nowhere we can be that is too far away for God to reach us with his love.
HOPE IN EXILE
AARON LEE - FEB 13, 2022
Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Aaron Lee encourages us with a message that reminds us that God loves us more than he hates sin, and that even in our darkest times, in our foolishness, at the edge of hopelessness, God’s love is there for us.
HOPE AND PEACE IN THE VOID
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 06, 2022
Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Ryne brings us a message of long-term hope, a reminder that God’s plan for us extends beyond the moment we are in, the experience we are having, and persists beyond what we can see or feel or touch.
WHERE TO STEP WHEN THE FLOOR FALLS APART
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 30, 2022
Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Ryne’s lesson reminds us to put our trust in God, because no matter how wise, strong, or intelligent we think we are, only the Lord’s strength, might, and wisdom are everlasting.
ACCOUNTABILITY & THE ANCIENT PATHS
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 23, 2022
Continuing our Hope in Exile series, Ryne’s sermon today encourages God’s people to examine their own accountability and face up to the consequences that our shortcomings as followers of Christ have in the communities around us, all in favor of correcting course with the goal of truly living like Jesus.
WHAT HABAKKUK & GOD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT BABYLON & PANDEMIC
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 16, 2022
Beginning a new series, Hope in Exile, an examination of expressions of faith in the face of despair, Ryne’s sermon highlights that monumentally difficult times are not new to God’s people, and that through each bleak moment in history, the Holy Spirit has been there to revive and restore our faith.
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING, GRANDPA?
STEVE THOMSEN - JAN 09, 2022
Steve Thomsen preaches a loving and heartfelt sermon that reminds us that God has a plan for us, that we should lift everything up in prayer, and that through it all, God’s love abounds.
IT’S WHAT HAPPENS AFTER CHRISTMAS THAT COUNTS
RYNE PARRISH - JAN 02, 2022
As we begin a new year, Ryne’s lesson directs our thoughts and behaviors to reflect the belief that Christmas is a beginning, not an end. Once we are filled with the true meaning of Christmas, it’s what happens after Christmas that counts.
THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER
ABBY KAPLAN - DEC 19, 2021
Abby’s lesson this week highlights parallels from the Old Testament with the account of Elizabeth and Mary, pregnant with John the Baptist and Jesus and how through Jesus, we see these stories retold as they should have been, relived in a way we can also live them, through Jesus’ example.
CHURCH, HOW?
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 12, 2021
Concluding our series on Church: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, Ryne preaches about how the church accomplishes its purpose of worshipping God through both bodily and spiritual worship.
CHURCH, WHY?
RYNE PARRISH - DEC 05, 2021
Continuing our series on Church: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, Ryne encourages us with a lesson that examines the church as a global and local entity, and what the church’s purpose of worshipping God looks like in both of those formats.
CHURCH, WHERE?
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 28, 2021
Continuing our series on Church: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, Ryne guides us through a look at the significance of the church being global, as well as the important implications of the church being here, in this place, in this community.
CHURCH, WHEN?
DAVID HURLEY - NOV 21, 2021
Continuing our sermon series on Church: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, David Hurley brings us a lesson that looks at the importance of being the church right now, not the church of the past, not even the church of the future.
CHURCH, WHAT?
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 14, 2021
Continuing our series on Church: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, today’s message examines what the church is. 1 Corinthians chapter 3 offers a profound explanation that reveals the church to be the dwelling place of God, a holy temple, comprised of the church (see last week’s sermon on who the church is), with Jesus as its foundation.
CHURCH, WHO?
RYNE PARRISH - NOV 7, 2021
Beginning a new sermon series on Church: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, Ryne’s message today focuses on what Revelation says about who the church is.
THE VALLEY OF BONES
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 31, 2021
Wrapping up our series on spooky stories from the Bible, this week’s eerie tale recounts a vision the prophet Ezekiel had where he witnessed dry bones regain their flesh and become reanimated.
HEROD AND THE CURSED FAMILY
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 24, 2021
Continuing our series on spooky stories from the Bible, we hear this week about a royal line of Herods and the curse that plagued them for generations.
THE GERASENE DEMONIAC
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 17, 2021
This week’s spooky story from the Bible is about the Gerasene Demoniac—a man possessed by so many demons they called themselves Legion.
THE FIGURE ON THE WATER
KAREN SEWELL - OCT 10, 2021
Continuing our series on strange and spooky stories from the Bible, this week’s sermon features the account of a ghostly figure seen walking on the Sea of Galilee during a violent storm.
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
RYNE PARRISH - OCT 03, 2021
The Bible, full of hope, beautiful poetry, and life-changing wisdom, also contains some seriously chilling stories. This week’s sermon kicks off our series on spooky stories from the Bible. Ryne retells the story found in Daniel chapter 5 about the ghostly human hand that appears during a party and scrawls a cryptic message for King Belshazzar on his plaster wall.
THE 1 PETER BLUEPRINT OF EVANGELISM
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 26, 2021
Wrapping up our series on the Good News, Ryne’s sermon this week focuses on the good news of hope and why being hopeful as a Christian doesn’t mean just wishing for the best. The hope Christians have is weighty and reliable, based in concrete experience. A person with hope cannot be a slave to the moment because we have assurance in who God will be and what his plan is, based on who he has been, and how we have seen his plan fulfilled.
EVANGELISM 101
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 12, 2021
Continuing our series on the Good News of the gospel, Ryne’s sermon takes a look at how we can share that Good News. Not just for the most faithful or the best public speakers, evangelism is about witnessing Jesus, then bearing witness of Jesus to others. Evangelism is an excitement we have in our Savior that bubbles up and compels us to point him out so that others can recognize Jesus for themselves.
GETTING BEHIND THE GOOD NEWS
RYNE PARRISH - SEPT 05, 2021
In today’s sermon on the Good News of the gospel, Ryne’s lesson shifts the narrative on what we should expect the Christ to look like to Jesus’ own views on the subject. Instead of expecting a powerful king, something that commands glory and praise, Jesus gives us the model of a servant, humble, and submissive to the will of God, even to death on a cross. And the good news for us is that instead of a king with unattainable power we’re constantly chasing after, we have a savior that, if we choose to follow, will lead us closer to God.
NOT A THROWAWAY WORLD
ABBY KAPLAN - AUG 29, 2021
In this week’s message, Abby highlights the Good News of God’s promise of the resurrection. In the resurrection, God will redeem us and transform us. He will set things right in a way that honors our stories, that makes clear the seed-like connection we’ll have to what we see now.
HEALING THE WOUND OF SIN
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 22, 2021
Continuing our series on the Good News, Ryne’s lesson challenges us to think about sin as a wound that requires healing, and the gospel of Jesus as a salve for the wounds we all have. This sermon highlights how the good news of Jesus is rescue, and that Jesus provides it freely, to all who ask.
THE THESSALONIAN WAY OF EVANGELISM
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 15, 2021
In this week’s lesson, Ryne highlights how it is not enough for us to repeat the words of Jesus, we must repeat his actions. The world is not listening to us, they are watching us. Love is a labor, an action, and Jesus says we should be recognizable by our love. We can’t teach the good news of Jesus to the world if we aren’t living it.
ANOINTED TO BRING GOOD NEWS
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 08, 2021
Beginning a new series on the Good News of Jesus, Ryne’s sermon this week challenges us to understand who the gospel is meant for (hint: everyone) and in what ways the gospel affects us, and to be cognizant how we are the fulfillment of scripture that prophesies that we have been anointed to announce the good news of Jesus.
EVERYTHING WE NEED TO RUN THE RACE OF FAITH
RYNE PARRISH - AUG 01, 2021
Concluding our sermon series on the Faith Hall of Fame highlighted in Hebrews chapter 11, Ryne’s lesson reminds us that the stories we’ve reviewed in this series are highlights of the faithfulness of God to God’s people—they bear witness to us, as we run our own race of faith with endurance, that if God was faithful to them, he will be faithful to us.
FAITH IN KINGS (AND OTHER BROKEN WATER TANKS)
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 25, 2021
In this week’s lesson, Ryne takes us through a look at Samuel and the misplaced faith of those around him. God’s faithfulness was with the Israelites, even when they insisted on putting their faith in a king instead of in God. Don’t we often misplace our faith too? The God we serve is too faithful to abandon his people, so let us cry out for God, not a king.
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
DOLORES HILLAIRE - JUL 18, 2021
Reflecting on the faithfulness of God that we have been studying over the last several weeks, Dolores Hillaire brings the congregation some words of encouragement about our faith in God and the faithfulness of our creator.
FAITH IN THE SOAP OPERA SEASON OF SAMSON
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 11, 2021
God’s faithfulness was on full display during the soap-opera that is the story of Samson, who at every turn was led by his own whims. In a stark contrast, Jesus was the model of being an active agent in God’s plan. We are all somewhere on the spectrum between Samson and Jesus—God has purposes to be accomplished both in and through us. Will those things be accomplished in spite of us and our own whims, or because we choose to be active agents in God’s plan?
A REPENTING FAITH & A FAITHFUL REPENTANCE
RYNE PARRISH - JUL 04, 2021
In this week’s lesson, Ryne encourages us with a message about repentance and its relationship to faith. Faith requires repentance, and repentance requires faith. Repentance is the decision that comes when you’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. And in order to repent, we need to trust that God’s faithfulness will extend to us because he has promised that it will.
THE FAITH OF RAHAB
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 27, 2021
Who does God use to show his faithfulness? Hebrews 11, which we have been referring to as the Faith Hall of Fame, might lead you to believe that it is those who are strong, mighty, well-known, or well-liked. But what if God’s faithfulness is shown even through those we might think are weak, or undeserving, or less-than? What if God’s faithfulness is shown through us?
DOING STRANGE THINGS IN THE NAME OF FAITH
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 20, 2021
Ryne’s lesson this week encourages us with the reminder that God is the unseen thing that we are hoping for. Though the world may see us as silly for believing in what we cannot see, the faithfulness of God is steadfast even when we appear to be acting strange. Ryne talks about the story of Jericho and the absolutely outrageous way God chose to bring the city’s wall tumbling down and how his faithfulness was there, with his people, even though the world saw them doing some strange things in the name of faith.
THE COST OF REDEMPTION
ABBY KAPLAN - JUN 13, 2021
In this lesson on faith, Abby Kaplan brings us a message that highlights the extent to which the faithfulness of God reaches—all the way to redemption, even when it comes at a great cost. The Hebrews witnessed God’s faithfulness in the cost of their redemption from Egypt and we are witness to the cost of our own redemption from sin—the sacrifice of God’s own firstborn son. Through Jesus, we are shown God’s ultimate vision for how he chooses to be faithful to his people—God is faithful, even at great cost to himself.
A DOWNWARDLY MOBILE FAITH
RYNE PARRISH - JUN 06, 2021
Continuing our series on faith, this week’s lesson looks at Moses and the way his faith in God empowered him to become downwardly mobile. Seeing this empowerment also in Jesus, we can be assured that when our faith is in a God who is faithful to us, we can let that faith lead us downward.
A DEATHBED FAITH
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 30, 2021
In this week’s sermon on faith, Ryne encourages us with a lesson that looks at examples of faith through legacy—that is, blessings of faith handed down from Abraham through Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. Though these men faced their deathbeds without seeing the promises God had made them fulfilled, they held out hope because they had seen enough to cling to faith in the faithfulness of God.
FAITH & THE PROMISE OF DEATH
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 23, 2021
Continuing our series on faith, Ryne’s lesson looks at more of Abraham’s faith story, which once again, is really a story about the faithfulness of God, even through death. Abraham’s story is steeped in the idea that even the inevitability of death is not enough to keep God from fulfilling his promises.
GREETING THE PROMISES FROM AFAR
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 16, 2021
Hebrews 11 has more to say about Abraham’s faith than any other person mentioned. In this week’s sermon, Ryne leads us through his story. Even though he continually got in the way of his own faith, Abraham was able to greet the promises God had made him, even from afar. The power of God is bigger than our failings, and Abraham’s faith story is a testament to how God’s promises are not conditional upon our abilities.
FAITH IN THE UNSEEN
KAREN SEWELL - MAY 09, 2021
Continuing our series on faith, Karen takes a look at Noah, another ancient figure featured in Hebrews 11. Noah’s faith was in the God whose words speak new life into existence. Something seen from something unseen—Noah saw it happen. Our faith belongs to the same God, and though we can’t always see the ways he is working in our lives, our faith compels us to trust in the promises he has made.
FAITH IN THE FEET: WALKING WITH GOD
RYNE PARRISH - MAY 02, 2021
In our series on faith stories from the Bible, Ryne’s lesson this week looks at Enoch. The Bible says little about him, except that he walked with God. Even in this brief description of the faith of this Hall-of-Famer we can still discern why that was significant enough to land him in Hebrews chapter 11. Enoch’s faith was an action—he walked with God. Do we have faith in our feet? Are we led into action? Do we walk beside the God who walks beside us?
LIFE ISN’T FAIR, AND GOD ISN’T EITHER
RYNE PARRISH - APR 25, 2021
Our series on faith stories begins in Hebrews 11 where the author lists what can only be described as the Faith Hall of Fame. Ryne’s sermon this week examines the story of Cain and Abel and gives us a lesson in why we ought to put our faith in a God who will take all wrongs and put them right again and whose justice also includes mercy.
THE FAITH IN YOU IS NOT THEORY
RYNE PARRISH - APR 18, 2021
On Tuesday evenings, our church has been meeting on Zoom to share our faith stories with each other. This week Ryne begins a new sermon series that looks at faith stories from the Bible. We sometimes think of faith as being just a belief in our head, but through these stories, and through those from our own church members, we can see that faith is actually in our hands and feet too—it’s something to put into action.
SHARING YOUR FAITH: EPHESIANS 2:1-10
RAYMOND JEW - APR 11, 2021
What is the reason for the hope that Christians have? This week Raymond Jew shares a message with us from Ephesians 2:1-10 — a passage that speaks to both where we were before we knew Christ and the proclamation of our salvation through Jesus. Listen to the full sermon here.
MY LORD AND MY GOD
RYNE PARRISH - APR 4, 2021
Jesus’ message to Thomas about faith is for us too—be faithful, not faithless. In this week’s sermon, Ryne speaks about Thomas who gets a bad rap for doubting Jesus after the resurrection, and examines how Thomas’ experience with faith can lead us through our own journey to find faith.
JESUS EXPLAINS PEEK-A-BOO
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 28, 2021
Easter is coming! Since we know that things exist even if we can’t see them, we celebrate Jesus’ promise that he is preparing a place for us in Heaven. Ryne’s sermon this week offers encouragement that though we weep and have pain, our pain will turn to joy with the return of our savior.
STAYING ON THE VINE
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 21, 2021
Continuing our series on Jesus’ not-so-farewell address, Ryne brings us a lesson focused on the importance of Christians remaining connected to Jesus. This sounds like a no-brainer, but it was important enough for Jesus to mention it to his disciples. Jesus assures us that the natural result of our connection to him (the fruit we bear through our connection to the vine) is love and joy.
JESUS’ (NOT SO) FAREWELL ADDRESS: IT ISN’T REALLY GOODBYE
RYNE PARRISH - MAR 14, 2021
Leading up to Easter, we’ve begun a new series taking a look at Jesus’ (not so) farewell address to his followers. This week Ryne’s lesson demonstrates how, in saying goodbye, Jesus promised to remain with us.
TELL WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU
DAVID HURLEY - FEB 28, 2021
Bearing testimony, witnessing, sharing your faith story—there are many names for the act of telling others what God has done for you. This week’s lesson, based in Mark chapter 5, looks at one example of one man, whose life was dramatically changed by Jesus, and the impact he had on his neighbors when he told them about what Jesus had done for him. David’s sermon encourages us to find ways to share our own experiences with Jesus with our neighbors.
LET GO & LET GOD…?
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 21, 2021
We don’t always realize when we attempt to test God, and we don’t always realize the damage it does to our faith when we do. Closing our series on resisting temptation, Ryne’s lesson this week highlight’s Jesus’ own temptation to test God. When we choose God’s will over ours, just like Jesus, we can strengthen our faith and overcome the temptation to put God to the test.
RESISTING THE TEMPTATIONS OF POWER
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 17, 2021
Continuing our series on resisting temptation, Ryne’s message this week examines how Jesus undermined the devil’s power by refusing to play his game. How can we resist the temptation of power? By putting whatever power we have aside, whether it be relational, social, political, or corporate, and by allowing God’s power to rule us rather than our own.
HOW TO RESIST YOUR “DOG TREAT IN THE DEVIL’S HAND”
RYNE PARRISH - FEB 07, 2021
Despite our best intentions, we all give into temptation, and as Christians, we must confront our own sin. In this lesson, Ryne’s message examines Jesus’ temptation and how he was able to resist the “dog treat in the devil’s hand”. The good news for us is that we are able to resist our temptation in the very same way—listen to this week’s sermon for an encouraging perspective on how we can do that.
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